In the days before protests erupted in Los Angeles, the Trump administration stepped up its efforts to detain migrants — taking into custody those who arrived for routine check-ins while also conducting workplace raids that have sent waves of fear across Southern California and beyond.

An escalating clash pits a Republican president looking to fulfill his mass deportation goals against a Democratic governor with White House aspirations hoping to mobilize opposition.

Splashy raids and deportations likely have hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of illegal immigrants thinking about what Senator Romney in

Trump claims the troops are quelling protests. But California officials fear their real mission is bigger: militarizing mass deportation.

A surge of protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has swept through Los Angeles, sparked by stepped-up immigration enforcement.

President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into his mass deportation agenda.

Paul Gigot: Los Angeles is quiet at least for a couple ... himself as the leader of the resistance against Trump's deportation policy and against really all things Trump. Let's listen to an ...

Trump’s aggressive overreaction to ICE protests could be improvisation — or the start of a broader push to militarize political conflict.

Comedian Jon Stewart accused President Trump of happily lighting the fuse on the fervent anti-ICE protests throughout Los Angeles — which he called “our most flammable city.”

Undocumented day laborers have been gathering at the fringes of America’s biggest home-improvement retailer for decades. Federal agents are turning up there, too.